Tegan Makal 🏳️⚧️
@makalmakal.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @ UVA Wise. MOF chemistry, craft beer, post hardcore music (she/her)
So exciting to see the recognition for MOFs!
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪
#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪
The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks
cen.acs.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
So exciting to see the recognition for MOFs!
I finished a new quilt project!
March 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I finished a new quilt project!
I'm excited to be included in @daltontrans.rsc.org Women in Inorganic Chemistry collection celebrating International Women's Day! Be sure to check out our and other's recent reports! pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
March 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I'm excited to be included in @daltontrans.rsc.org Women in Inorganic Chemistry collection celebrating International Women's Day! Be sure to check out our and other's recent reports! pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
Shit sucks, but we were able to shut out the outside world for a few hours at our second quilting class.
February 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Shit sucks, but we were able to shut out the outside world for a few hours at our second quilting class.
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And we're on Bluesky! Please follow for all news on our annual conference UKPORMAT and other porous materials news/events!
February 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
And we're on Bluesky! Please follow for all news on our annual conference UKPORMAT and other porous materials news/events!
For those of you who followed me bc of MOFs, here is a look at some of what I do! I'm a faculty member at a PUI, so we don't publish a lot, but we do some pretty cool work! (imo) Hope you enjoy 😄
Structural diversity and solvent-induced transformations of a copper-based metal–organic framework with highly aromatic ligands
A newly designed tetracarboxylic acid ligand precursor 5,5′-([9,9′-bianthracene]-10,10′-diyl)diisophthalic acid (H4BADI) has been used to prepare a series of copper-based metal–organic frameworks (MOF...
pubs.rsc.org
January 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For those of you who followed me bc of MOFs, here is a look at some of what I do! I'm a faculty member at a PUI, so we don't publish a lot, but we do some pretty cool work! (imo) Hope you enjoy 😄
Reposted by Tegan Makal 🏳️⚧️
The fluorescent #chemistree is up & it looks stunning! #FluorescenceFriday We ran a workshop with students making the glowing solutions out of common household substances. From Riboflavin in vitamin B2, chlorophyll from spinach to protoporphyrin IX in brown egg shells. All fluorescing under UV light
December 6, 2024 at 1:04 PM
The fluorescent #chemistree is up & it looks stunning! #FluorescenceFriday We ran a workshop with students making the glowing solutions out of common household substances. From Riboflavin in vitamin B2, chlorophyll from spinach to protoporphyrin IX in brown egg shells. All fluorescing under UV light
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Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.
December 20, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.
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The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List (by Andrew Spaeth, me) has 428 tenure-track positions and 65 teaching positions: bit.ly/facultychemj... facultychemjobs chemjobs chemsky 🧪
The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
bit.ly
December 3, 2024 at 8:39 PM
The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List (by Andrew Spaeth, me) has 428 tenure-track positions and 65 teaching positions: bit.ly/facultychemj... facultychemjobs chemjobs chemsky 🧪
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The Supreme Court case tomorrow is fundamentally not about gender affirming care, it's about whether or not trans people have any protections under the 14th amendment. A loss in this case would greenlight a torrent of explicitly discriminatory legislation without much, if any judicial recourse.
December 4, 2024 at 12:16 AM
The Supreme Court case tomorrow is fundamentally not about gender affirming care, it's about whether or not trans people have any protections under the 14th amendment. A loss in this case would greenlight a torrent of explicitly discriminatory legislation without much, if any judicial recourse.
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1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
The Mystery of Food Deserts
They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:06 PM
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
I've been baking klobasneks (often called sausage kolaches) recently, and I'm thrilled with how this batch turned out! #chemistswhocook
November 17, 2024 at 4:44 PM
I've been baking klobasneks (often called sausage kolaches) recently, and I'm thrilled with how this batch turned out! #chemistswhocook
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Friendly neighborhood political scientist here to remind you that everything is political, including and sometimes especially science. In fact, claiming your vocation is apolitical is itself a political claim with a political goal.
In the wake of the U.S. election, Natl Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt has authored a spot-on editorial in Science, stressing the apolitical nature of science and how it remains vital to informing a lot of public policy. Best read all week!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#scipol 🧪
#scipol 🧪
November 16, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Friendly neighborhood political scientist here to remind you that everything is political, including and sometimes especially science. In fact, claiming your vocation is apolitical is itself a political claim with a political goal.
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The Onion should buy Elsevier next
November 14, 2024 at 8:28 PM
The Onion should buy Elsevier next
I'm grateful for publishers doing name changes post-publication. It's great to not cringe when I see my previous publications. But, why is @acspublications.bsky.social taking so long to make the changes?
November 1, 2024 at 2:33 AM
I'm grateful for publishers doing name changes post-publication. It's great to not cringe when I see my previous publications. But, why is @acspublications.bsky.social taking so long to make the changes?
I'm having a rough few days. Stress about promotion app, stress about making progress on recent project, and general feelings of blegh. Today, I got word I was not selected for an award I had been hopeful about. BUT, my reissued diplomas came in today, and I'm so thrilled about it! It's a good day!
October 22, 2024 at 10:37 PM
I'm having a rough few days. Stress about promotion app, stress about making progress on recent project, and general feelings of blegh. Today, I got word I was not selected for an award I had been hopeful about. BUT, my reissued diplomas came in today, and I'm so thrilled about it! It's a good day!
Heading to Raleigh/Durham for a few days. Any recommendations on restaurants and/or breweries?
May 28, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Heading to Raleigh/Durham for a few days. Any recommendations on restaurants and/or breweries?
It's been fun getting back into theater again! My second time performing in A Midsummer Night's Dream
April 29, 2024 at 2:15 AM
It's been fun getting back into theater again! My second time performing in A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Hi, everyone! We had a great time out at Burial Beer Co in Asheville yesterday!
March 15, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Hi, everyone! We had a great time out at Burial Beer Co in Asheville yesterday!
My official name change went through today! 😃🏳️⚧️
February 6, 2024 at 12:06 AM
My official name change went through today! 😃🏳️⚧️
Still need to organize some random stuff, but feeling great about the music room! Picked up a new Hagstrom just the other day 👀
January 28, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Still need to organize some random stuff, but feeling great about the music room! Picked up a new Hagstrom just the other day 👀
Fresh ink. Always loved the Texas bluebonnets
December 16, 2023 at 3:13 AM
Fresh ink. Always loved the Texas bluebonnets